[citation needed] The 16 hp Two-litre was supplemented by then later replaced by the more expensive and better equipped 2-litre Rover Meteor 16 announced in February 1930.
The Two-litre was powered by a watercooled 2 L straight-6 OHV engine with an output of 45 bhp at 3600 rpm designed by Peter Poppe, which allowed a maximum speed of 60 mph (97 km/h).
[2] The engine clutch and gearbox assembly is mounted and supported at three points, the single one in front, the rear pair by horizontally U-shaped leaf spring attachments.
[7] The suspension was conventional for the time with half elliptic leaf springs all round mounted above the axles.
[2] As with its predecessors standard bodies were very light weight rattle free fabric bodywork built by Rover under licence from Weymann.